When: November 7, 2023, 12:00 pm -1:00 pm EST
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Just putting a group of people around a task does not guarantee a real collaboration; its necessary structure activities convey good communication and participation among group members. Games have been designed as a mechanism to support communication between people working on a group activity.
In this talk, I will present the developments of software tools based on games in order to analyze the quality of the collaboration process for small groups working synchronously toward two goals: learning to collaborate and collaborating to learn.
César A. Collazos is a Full Professor of the Computer Science Department at the University of Cauca-Colombia. He is also the Head of HCI-Collab, a collaborative network supporting HCI education in Iberomerican countries. His research areas of interest include: Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and HCI. To learn more about his work, contact him through this email address: ccollazo@unicauca.edu.co.